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cloud-capt

cloud-capt adjective: capped with clouds.

Adjective

cloud-capt (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Capped with clouds
    • The entrance to Fonthill—that truly cloud-capt palace, so fantastic and so transitory—was by two stupendous doors, which seemed to defy the strength of giants.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 80

Forms of cloud-capt

alternative formcloudcapt
alternative formcloud-capped

Questions about cloud-capt

What does cloud-capt mean?
Cloud-capt means capped with clouds.
What part of speech is cloud-capt?
Cloud-capt is an adjective.

Words near cloud-capt in the dictionary

  1. cloud suck
  2. cloud up
  3. cloud-built
  4. cloud-burst
  5. cloud-bursts
  6. cloud-capt
  7. cloud-cuckoo-land
  8. cloud-first
  9. cloud-headed
  10. cloud-native
  11. cloud-ridden

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